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GHSA-WXM3-66F2-8XFM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-07 18:31 – Updated: 2026-02-03 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register()

devm_clk_notifier_register() allocates a devres resource for clk notifier but didn't register that to the device, so the notifier didn't get unregistered on device detach and the allocated resource was leaked.

Fix the issue by registering the resource through devres_add().

This issue was found with kmemleak on a Chromebook.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53674 (GCVE-0-2023-53674)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:15

Title

clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() devm_clk_notifier_register() allocates a devres resource for clk notifier but didn't register that to the device, so the notifier didn't get unregistered on device detach and the allocated resource was leaked. Fix the issue by registering the resource through devres_add(). This issue was found with kmemleak on a Chromebook.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6971 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a326cf0107b197e64…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49451db71b746df99…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb1b04fd4283fc8f9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efbbda79b2881a04d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fb933e56f77a57ef…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6d30d50d037dfa092f9d5d1fffa348ab4abb7163 , < a326cf0107b197e649bbaa2a2b1355894826ce32 (git) Affected: 6d30d50d037dfa092f9d5d1fffa348ab4abb7163 , < 49451db71b746df990888068961f1033f7c9b734 (git) Affected: 6d30d50d037dfa092f9d5d1fffa348ab4abb7163 , < cb1b04fd4283fc8f9acefe0ddc61ba072ed44877 (git) Affected: 6d30d50d037dfa092f9d5d1fffa348ab4abb7163 , < efbbda79b2881a04dcd0e8f28634933d79e17e49 (git) Affected: 6d30d50d037dfa092f9d5d1fffa348ab4abb7163 , < 7fb933e56f77a57ef7cfc59fc34cbbf1b1fa31ff (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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